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Medicare Part D Enrollment: What Community Pharmacy Needs to Know Online Program

At the pharmacy, you are often called upon to act as a prescription benefit advisor. Your guidance in this area is likely to be sought as patients learn more about the Medicare prescription drug benefit available in 2006, and as they evaluate which plan to enroll in or whether to enroll at all. This training program provides you with the information you need to answer many of the questions patients may pose as they approach this task.

Infection Control for Hearing Healthcare Providers

This course will provide the necessary information to allow you to adopt clinical procedures that minimize the risk of contaminating yourself, families, patients and colleagues with infectious agents encountered in the clinical environment. You will learn how to develop your own infection control plan.

Using the Client Oriented Scale of Improvement

This course is designed to familiarize the learner with the Client Oriented Scale of Improvement (COSI). It will demonstrate the proper administrative techniques for a self-assessment questionnaire, and will illustrate the proper mechanism of the COSI form and process with four case studies that support the content.

Bloodborne Pathogens in the Workplace

Achieve compliance with OSHA’s Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act through the online Bloodborne Pathogens course. This course will show how to prevent employees from exposure to bloodborne pathogens and how to protect employees from infection.

HIPAA Security Basics for the Health Care Workforce

The HIPAA Security Standards were adopted in February 2003 (CMS-0049-F) with a requirement for all covered entities to be compliant no later than April 2005.

LearnSomething's HIPAA Security Basics offers the training required by this Law as well as the tracking and reporting features needed to provide a record of your company’s compliance.

Our comprehensive program addresses HIPAA Security requirements for all workers covered by the rule:

• Full-time, part-time, and temporary employees
• Volunteers
• Interns and students
• All others with access to protected health information transmitted electronically

This final Rule adopts standards for the security of electronic protected health information (e-PHI) to be implemented by health plans, health care clearinghouses, and certain health care providers and includes specific requirements for the training of all staff with access to protected health information (PHI).

The training course reviews administrative, physical, and technical safeguards; describes required policies and procedures; and introduces the basic concepts of information security.

The Privacy Rule and Health Care Practice

This course answers your questions while providing an overview of the Law and the patient rights it was written to protect. It is required training for all members of the workforce with access to Protected Health Information.

Preventing Fraud, Waste & Abuse

As part of the Medicare Part D – Prescription Drug Benefit, CMS released final guidance in April 2006 for compliance guidance to all Medicare Part D Sponsors titled “CMS Prescription Drug Benefit Manual, Chapter 9 – Part D Program to Control Fraud, Waste and Abuse”. Section 50.2.3 of the Manual dictates that all Sponsors and their “downstream entities”, which include pharmacists and pharmacy workforce members engaged in delivering any Medicare services, receive general and specialized training to prevent fraud, waste and abuse.

At the completion of this program, you will be better able to:

• Understand the laws and regulations related to fraud, waste and abuse
• Identify the elements of our company’s fraud, waste and abuse compliance program
• Understand your obligations under our company’s fraud, waste and abuse policies and procedures
• Know how to report suspected fraud, waste and abuse in pharmacies
• Understand your protections when reporting suspected fraud, waste and abuse
• Know the potential penalties for violating company fraud, waste and abuse policies and procedures
• Identify certain types of fraud, waste and abuse that can occur in pharmacies

Finally, you will have to confirm that you have reviewed all company policies and procedures related to fraud, waste and abuse.

Fair Labor Standards Act Training

This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the definition and requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

In addition, the course reviews management’s responsibility for audit preparation, proper recordkeeping and coordinating with company resources on policies and procedures.

Family Medical and Leave Act Training

This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the definition and requirements of the Family Medical and Leave Act (FMLA).

Sexual Harassment Recognition and Prevention

The purpose of this course is to enhance the store associate's knowledge of sexual harassment. Different scenarios will be presented which involve recognizing behaviors and addressing the issue. Participants will receive a certificate upon completion of this course.

Sexual Harassment Recognition and Prevention for Managers

The purpose of this course is to enhance the store manager's knowledge of sexual harassment. Different scenarios will be presented which involve recognizing behaviors and addressing the issue. Participants will receive a certificate upon completion of this course.